ChallengerNKY.com: A Voice for Northern Kentucky — Business: Here is an article about a guy who used to work with Toyota and has now started a “lean logistics” company, LeanCor, in Kentucky, with Maytag among their clients. “The lean style…
Article Link: Fast Company Now this is an old article, from 1996, about a “lean” home builder in Austin TX. Doyle Wilson homes was also featured prominently in the book Lean Thinking. I can’t figure out what happened to the company…
Cincinnati Enquirer: It will be interesting to see if Toyota can apply rapid continuous improvement cycles to building winning NASCAR cars after starting in the truck series: “‘It was very easy for us to kind of apply the Toyota production…
TPS – Lean Manufacturing and Process Improvements: Lean Articles Here is a good article from Bill Hanover, President of ThroughPut Solutions. Bill previously wrote a series of articles on lean management, “Mere Mortal Managers”, which I also recommend highly. Bill…
Business Edge News Magazine – businessedge.ca – Ontario Edition: A rebuttal from Alabama (and Toyota) Does your company want intelligent workers who can think or the “cheapest” labor you can find? Here is an article about Toyota’s choice of Ontario…
IndustryWeek : Continuous Improvement This is a new recurring column from Industry Week. The author makes the pitch that companies shouldn’t “forget about” continuous improvement in the face of today’s other manufacturing issues (competition from China, Chinese currency issues, etc.).…
MoreRFID Nissan’s version of “TPS” is the “Nissan Production Way”. Here is an interesting article about the use of new technology (RFID) to help their manufacturing process. The Toyota Way has one principle that says to use only established, proven…
Cincinnati Enquirer: While the article talks about the specifics of 5S, I like how they mention that it isn’t just about putting tape around garbage cans. “To stay competitive, the company brought in Colby Associates to teach employees how to…
i-Newswire.com – Press Release And News Distribution – Kanban Marketshare Leader is Datacraft Solutions I can certainly see the appeal in electronic kanban. If you have a truck that comes to your plant twice a week and you’re sending physical…
Bloomberg.com: U.S.: Comments from the Ford president: “Padilla says Toyota serves as an example of how to make winning models. “Toyota doesn’t hit home runs every time at bat,” he says during an interview in the executive dining room. “When…
How to Prevent Lean Implementation Failures: 10 Reasons Why Failures Occur I read this book over the weekend, here is the review I wrote for Amazon.com: This is a book that’s needed publishing for quite some time. Most lean books…
The Standard – The great mall of China – Opinion Section: Interesting view into the growth of malls in China. This excerpt from the article talks about the flow of goods back and forth, the U.S. shipping scrap materials to…
